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Truth or Fake
Truth or Fake is a fact-checking rendez-vous in association with the FRANCE 24 Observers. Our content focuses on false images circulating online and how to identify them. Monday to Thursday at 8:45pm and 10:20pm Paris time.
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'L’Abuso': Real Italian magazine cover of Israeli settler sparks online storm
Prominent left-leaning Italian weekly L'Espresso is at the centre of a diplomatic storm online, after the Israeli ambassador to Italy slammed its choi...
YouTube bans viral pro-Iran AI-generated LEGO videos trolling Trump
As the "meme war" between the US and Iran continues via AI "slopaganda", an Iran-linked group named Explosive Media has been pumping out viral LEGO-st...
Donald Trump deletes AI image of himself as Jesus after attacking Pope Leo
Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Pope Leo late on Sunday, also going as far as to share an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jes...
NASA's Artemis II: conspiracy theories take off about ‘staged’ green screen
NASA’s Artemis II is set to return to Earth on Friday, after its astronauts travelled further from Earth than any humans before. But the historic luna...
‘Unhinged, insane’: US lawmakers call for Trump’s removal via 25th Amendment
Donald Trump may have announced a last-minute ceasefire agreement with Iran, but it has done little to quieten a growing wave of Democratic lawmakers...
Trump repeats falsehoods that he predicted 9/11 and demanded Bin Laden's death
During a press conference on Monday about the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about Washington’s progress in the...
White House posts then deletes Easter video of Trump insulting Macron
The White House briefly published – then deleted – a video from Donald Trump’s private Easter luncheon in which the US president made a series of infl...
Fact-checking Trump's address on the war in Iran
In a 19-minute address to the nation from the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump defended his war in Iran, now entering its second month...
Debunking claims Israeli Jews are 'stealing land' in Morocco
Internet users have been sharing a video online that they claim “proves” Israeli Jews are stealing land in Morocco – supposedly reclaiming property fr...
No, Iranian hackers didn’t leak a video of the FBI's Kash Patel dancing
FBI Director Kash Patel has been the subject of social media buzz this week after his private emails were reportedly hacked by an Iranian-linked group...
Fake images falsely claim Iran captured US marines on Kharg Island
American military reinforcements continue to arrive in the Middle East, as uncertainty persists over the possibility of US boots on the ground in Iran...
War in the Mideast: are the UK, Australia and Taiwan about to run out of fuel?
As Iran’s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz fuels global energy anxiety, viral posts are claiming that major economies are on the brink of an unprece...
Has the AFCON trophy been hidden in a military base in Senegal? No
In the wake of the Confederation of African Football's recent decision to strip Senegal of its AFCON title and declare Morocco the winners, some onlin...
Misleading campaign adverts target French far-left in local elections
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Toulouse – France's fourth-largest city – were exposed to a misleading campaign targeting Francois Piquemal,...
Video of Iranian soldier being targeted in a Tehran strike is AI generated
Since Tuesday, videos supposedly showing Iranian soldiers being bombed in Tehran have been widely shared by pro-Israel accounts, Israeli media and eve...
Are US soldiers really "refusing orders" to fight in Iran war?
More than two weeks after the US and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, a rumour has sprung up that American soldiers are refusing, en masse, t...
Social media abuzz with viral rumours of Benjamin Netanyahu's death
Social media has recently been abuzz with false rumours claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was killed in an Iranian missile strik...
Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego propaganda video
The war in Iran is not only being fought on the battlefield – it is also playing out online. Iran’s state media recently took a leaf out of the White...
US Energy Secretary deletes post that Navy escorted tanker through Strait of Hormuz
A brief social media post by the US energy secretary prompted a major U-turn from the Trump administration. Within 30 minutes, Chris Wright had posted...
Video shows US Tomahawk missile strike next to bombed Iranian school
A newly released video by Iran’s Mehr News Agency – verified and geolocated by fact-checking experts – shows an American Tomahawk cruise missile strik...
Dubai influencers post near-identical videos praising city’s ‘safety’
Influencers in Dubai have taken to social media to post near-identical videos praising the city’s safety and glorifying its leadership, using the same...
No, Iranian footballer Mehdi Taremi is not going to fight for the Iranian regime
The claim spread like wildfire on social media earlier this week after the US and Israel began striking Iran: Iranian footballer Mehdi Taremi was cons...
After US attacks, is Iran's navy on the brink?
On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. The Pentagon says one o...
What we know about the deadly strike on a primary school in Iran
Iran held a mass funeral this Tuesday for at least 165 schoolgirls killed in an air strike on the southern town of Minab on Saturday. But online, some...
Disinformation exaggerates Iran's military successes against the U.S. and Israel
After US-Israeli strikes on Iran, pro-Tehran accounts circulated fake footage claiming to show the aftermath of missile strikes on the USS Abraham Lin...
State of the Union: Trump makes false, misleading claims about immigration, economy
During his State of the Union speech, US President Donald Trump made a slew of false or misleading claims including about the US economy, immigration...
How Russia has finetuned its disinformation campaign in 4 years of Ukraine war
Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has redoubled its efforts in disinformation warfare. Its methods have evolved, with mo...
No, American Special Forces didn't lead the Mexican operation against El Mencho
Following Mexico’s military operation against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which killed drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho",...
Did the Epstein Files prove the Pizzagate conspiracy theory right?
The US Department of Justice’s massive release of Epstein case files has turned some internet users into self-appointed digital sleuths. They have bee...
How the killing of a French far-right activist sparked an online manhunt
The killing of 23-year-old French nationalist Quentin Deranque, on the sidelines of a protest in Lyon, has heightened tensions between far-right and f...
Transgender community targeted with false allegations after Tumbler Ridge shooting
In the wake of last week's mass shooting in the remote Canadian community of Tumbler Ridge, some online have been claiming that transgender people are...
Milano Cortina 2026: Ukranian athletes targeted by disinformation
In recent weeks, Ukrainian athletes and visitors at this year's Winter Olympics have been targeted by a string of false accusations. These fake news r...
No, the UN's Francesca Albanese did not call Israel 'the common enemy of humanity'
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, has long been highly critical of Israel. Last weekend, she was accused...
Ukraine war: Why is a teenager accused of burying his father 'eight times'?
Multiple social media users – many of them pro-Russian accounts – have shared a photomontage of a teenage boy carrying portraits at multiple funerals,...
AI photos fuel conspiracy theories Jeffrey Epstein is alive in Israel
Following the latest file dump by the US Department of Justice, social media is flooded with discourse about Jeffrey Epstein. It's triggered scores of...
Doctored emails online claim Jeffrey Epstein invented Bitcoin
Social media users have falsely claimed that emails from the latest Epstein file dump prove that the disgraced sex offender was in fact Satoshi Nakamo...
Epstein emails claim Bill Gates contracted STD, had sex with Russian girls
The latest Jeffrey Epstein file dump by the US Department of Justice saw a number of high-profile individuals named, one of them being Microsoft co-fo...
Police raid Paris offices of Musk's X over child sexual deepfakes
The Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raided the French offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday morning, as part of a probe into al...
Epstein files: AI photos circulate of Zohran Mamdani’s mother at party
The fallout continues after the US Department of Justice released over 3 million documents pertaining to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. New Y...
AI influencers: this viral monk selling wellness content isn't real
A Buddhist monk influencer has amassed millions of followers on social media, sharing spiritual guidance videos and selling e-books on healing. The ca...